20 responses to “Sexier High Voltage Line Towers”

Yeh, like they’re not robots in disguise. Current pylons are so unwieldy, so vast and squat, that I KNOW they’re not going to chase the citizenry around. These – too beautiful and balletic, too graceful – they’re waiting for instructions.

Can it be assembled easier than current designs? No.
Would it be cheaper? No.
Does it use fewer resources? No.
Is it easier to maintain? No.
Does it take up less room? No.
Has any thought gone into how it would behave in strong winds? Almost certainly not.

Architects shouldn’t be allowed to design anything that actually needs to work.

According to this architect the height of each of these towers is to be determined by that tower’s latitude and longitude.

Apparently adapting to uneven terrain, varying ground composition, differing rights of way, clearance needs over roads and navigable waterways, wind and ice loads, number of circuits per tower, maintenance needs and a whole host of other engineering considerations are minutiae to be ignored so that the architect can basically masturbate in public and get kudos from his fellow architects for doing so.